Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees

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Lyndsey Stonebridge (Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham)

Placeless People

Writings, Rights, and Refugees

Lyndsey Stonebridge (Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham)

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Oxford University Press
08 November 2018

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the politicalDSand imaginativeDShistory of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge (Professor of Humanities and Human Rights Professor of Humanities and Human Rights University of Birmingham)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198797005
ISBN 10: 0198797001
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently writing a short book on Literature and Human Rights for OUP's Literary Agendas series, and collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.

Reviews for Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees

"Placeless People is an extraordinary book that deserves a wide readership. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the feld of literary refugee studies and a textbook example of how intellectual history can help us read literature and vice versa. * Christos Hadjiyiannis, University of London, Stonebridge Review * This carefully researched, elegantly and passionately argues book exemplifies the values of practicing ""law and literature"" for apprehending modern exile and understanding refugees. * Stephanie Jones, University of Southampton * The book is beautifully written, and brings an intricate perspective to the topics of rights, citizenship, statelessness and refugee experience. * Charlotte Lydia Riley, University of Southampton, The Political Quarterly * Scrupulously researched and documented, this invaluable and informative volume is illustrated with relevant photographs and quotations. * B. Diemert, CHOICE * A stunning study as much of literature's own ""endurance beyond nation, and its worldly capacity to conjure up human community out of despair"" as of migrant refuge and the powerplay of state refusal of refuge, via the 20th century's great writers of displacement. * Ali Smith, Books of the Year 2018, The Guardian * [An] incandescent and admirably polemical new book ... Placeless People should help change conversations about humanitarianism, migration, citizenship, and democracy. * Hadji Bakara, Los Angeles Review of Books * Magisterial. Anybody seeking to understand the contemporary challenges faced by refugees, and the responses by nation states that view themselves as sovereign, will find in Placeless People clues as to how we got here and ideas as to what we ought to do next ... The book navigates contested themes from multiple viewpoints. In doing so, it illuminates historical and contemporary challenges to national distinctions, political communities and human rights. * Matthew R. Joseph, Times Higher Education * Placeless People delves deeply into the philosophy of human rights but with easy prose and a structure that would give anyone pause when thinking about our times ... This small book makes a fast but thought provoking read. * Robert Davis, New York Journal of Books * Stonebridge offers a nuanced and complex interdisciplinary treatment of the problems of citizenship, statelessness, and mass displacement. * Choice * [A] deft and incisive book ... The canon of writers assembled is one of Placeless People's great strengths ... The contribution Stonebridge makes lies in her readings. It is with close engagement that she demonstrates the ability of novels, poems, plays, and journalism to move beyond the banalising morality inherent to the idea that literature is a locus for empathy. * Marc Mierowsky, Syndey Review of Books * This is a book about displacement but it offers us ways to feel at home despite these toxic and hateful times. * Les Back, New Humanist * Lyndsey Stonebridge's Placeless People, whilst outwardly a study based in literary criticism and theory, works impressively through the wide-ranging implications of statelessness to explore the real meanings of citizenship and belonging through the eyes of some of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and thinkers ... Where this book distinguishes itself, for all scholars of placelessness, is its ability to move, through a sharplyfocussed discussion of some of the twentieth century's most renowned literary or philosophical voices, to offer insights into the ways in which, now as then,'[m]odern placelessness demonstrates how fragile everybody's place in the world is. * Katherine Cooper, Migration Studies * Lyndsey Stonebridge's excellent Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees is a welcome addition to this interdisciplinary field as well as to the broader field of twentieth-century literary and cultural studies. * Kelly M. Rich, Contemporary Literature * Lyndsey Stonebridge's sensitive and assertive book succeeds on a range of levels. Placeless People combines careful thinking on the situation of refugees, engaged moral philosophy, and purposeful literary criticism ... Full of fascinating information, fresh perspectives, and important episodes recovered from history, Placeless People is a valuable read for those working on the injustices of forced displacement and statelessness today. * Process North *"